Steam drop-hammer.



PATENTED AUG. 28, 1906.

C. L. TAYLOR.

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CLARENCE L. TAYLOR, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MORGANENGINEERING COMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO.

STEAM DROP-HAMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 190e.

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, CLARENCE L. TAYLOR, of Alliance, in the county ofStark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Steam Drop-Hammers; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art. to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in steam drop-hammers.

In all steam-hammers wherein the ram or hammer-head works in groovedguides the guides are seated against inclined seats on the side membersof the hammer and are adjustable to compensate for wear by moving themupwardly on said inclined faces. This upward movement of the guidesbrings their inner faces closer together at the top as well as at thebottom.

It has been found in practice that the engagement of the die or hammerhead with the article being forged causes lateral deflection of the dieor hammer head, and this lateral deflection produces greater wear on theguides at and near their lower ends. Hence when the guides are adjustedto compensate for this excessive wear at their lower ends the upper endsof the guides are correspondingly adjusted. This frequently results in abinding of the upper ends of the guides against the hammer-head or ramor prevents sufficient adjustment of the guides to take up all the wear.

The object of the present invention is to provide means whereby theguides may be adjusted at either or both ends; and my invention consistsin the parts and combinations of parts and details of construction, aswill be more fully described and pointed out in the claims. c

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation, partlyinsection, of a hammer embodying my invention and Fig. 2 is a view insection on the line A A of Fig. 1.

1 represents the frame of a hammer, the side members 2 of which areprovided on their inner faces with inwardly-projecting parallel flanges3, between which the adjustable guides 8 are seated. These guides areprovided with ribs and grooves on their outer edges to enter and receivecorresponding grooves and ribs on the hammer-head or ram and are held inplace between the flange 3 by the bolts 4, the heads of which restwithin recesses 5 in the guides. These bolts 4 pass through the guides8, wedge-blocks 6, and side members 2 and are held in place by nutsscrewed on their outer ends. The blocks 6 are preferably cylindrical inshape, with one flat side, the latter being inclined, as shown in Fig.2, forming, in effect, wedges, each of which bears against acorrespondingly-in-V clined face formed on the rearward projections 7 ofthe guides 8. The wedge-blocks 6 are seated in curved seats 9, the endsof which latter are closed by caps l0, held in place by a bolt 1 l,passing through both caps and the intermediate wedge block. Thewedge-blocks are provided with elongated slots for the passage of thebolts 4. Hence the blocks can be adjusted by simply loosening up thebolts 4 and without removing the latter. If desired, the bolts l1 may bescrew-threaded to engage female threads on the blocks, and when soconstructed the blocks will be moved longitudinally by simply rotatingthe bolts and will be held against accidental longitudinal movement bysaid bolts. With this construction it is evident that the guides may beadjusted at either or both ends to compensate for any and all wear ofthe parts, and thus caused to maintain an easy and snug bearing with thehammerhead throughout the entire stroke of the latter. i

It is evident that changes in the construction and relative arrangementof the several parts might be made without avoiding my invention, andhence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to theparticular construction and arrangement of parts shown and described;but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a power-hammer the combination with a frame, a hammer-head andside guides mounted in the frame, of wedge-blocks forming seats for theside guides, a threaded bolt passing through each wedge block andmounted at its ends in the frame and bolts engaging the guides, passingthrough elongated slots in the wedge-blocks and secured to the frames.

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2. In a power-hammer, the combination l specification in the presence oftWo subscrib- With a frame, a hammer head, side guides ing Witnesses.for the latter and Wedde-blocks lorminfT seats for said guides, of boltsengaging the zguides CLARENCE L' TAYLOR' 5 and passing through theWedge-blocks and Witnesses:

frame and secured to the latter. A. L. ROBERTS,

In testimony whereof I have signed this N. C. FETTERS.

